The Impact of the Retirement Age Increase on the Economy and Attitudes of the Population of the Murmansk Oblast

Pension Reform And Demographic Processes In The Arctic Regions

“…Note that this differs from the situation in Russia as a whole. Thus, our research shows that increasing the retirement age in Russia will break the trend of reducing the working-age population in this country (Baranov et al, 2020).…”

“…Research on the impact of changes in the retirement age on social, demographic, and economic processes is significant for Russian regions. Thus, our research shows that in Russia, the pension reform has a very different effect on Russia's regions, mainly the differences are manifested in the reaction of regional demographic processes (Baranov et al, 2020). The Russian Arctic is a specific region characterized by significant medical and demographic problems -a decrease in the population, low life expectancy, and an excess of morbidity of Arctic residents in a whole list of diseases in comparison with the national situation (Khoreva et al, 2018).…”

“…Note that in this paper we present only a small part of our large-scale three-year study (2019)(2020)(2021), funded by the RFBR, project №19-010-00022 (Baranov et al, 2020).…”

On the Peculiarities of Consumption of the Population of the Arctic Regions of Russia

“…The need to separate the socioeconomic space of the Russian Arctic from the overall Russian situation is caused by the presence of very specific characteristics that directly affect the quality, standard of living, determining specifics of consumption of various kinds of goods and servicesby the population as well. Such specific characteristics of the Arctic include remoteness, cold discomfort, increased demand for vitamins and food, underdeveloped social infrastructure, limited transport accessibility, less developed service sector than the national average, high average wages [3][4][5]. The scientific significance of the study of the specifics of population consumption lies in establishing these specific characteristics of the socioeconomic space of the Russian Arctic in statistical data that reliably diagnose the characteristics of consumption of the population living in the Russian Arctic.…”

“…The increased relevance of identifying the specifics of consumption of the population of the Russian Arctic is also determined by the fact that at present in Russia a large set of regulatory documents is being formed, in which the Russian Arctic is designated as a special object of governmental management in order to increase the level of socioeconomic development of this territory [6][7][8]. A number of studies rightly note that the global trends in Arctic governance of other polar countries are consistent with this goal [4,[9][10][11]. However, there is also a growing number of negative trends in the development of the Russian Arctic, which emphasize the need to address the problems related to the standard and quality of life of the population, including its consumption [5,6,12].…”